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Leftist Colombian President Gustavo Petro has issued an official response to President Trump’s announcement of consequences for his country after he initially blocked flights carrying criminal aliens in the state capital of Bogata’ and it is a quite a doozy.
As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, Petro, a former Marxist guerrilla and a vocal critic of the U.S. foreign policy, embarrassingly folded to President Donald Trump’s strategic pressure on tariffs and sanctions, making a drastic U-turn by sending the presidential plane to collect Colombian deportees previously barred from landing.
This move came after Petro’s initial bravado in blocking two U.S. military deportation flights, a decision that sparked an angry response from Trump.
But Petro appears to have finished cooperating for now and is puffing out his chest again. Late Sunday afternoon, Petro issued a bizarre statement to Trump that must be seen to be believed.
Petro first scoffed at the sanctions, remarking that he finds America “a bit boring” before going on a bizarre screed parsing a variety of far-left American political figures, including Noam Chomsky. But this was just the beginning of his nonsensical screed.
The Colombian leader went on to blast U.S. oil, call Trump a racist, and portray himself as a martyr all while using vernacular so wacky one can only wonder what is going on inside his head.
I don’t like your oil, Trump, you’re going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it’s difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I’m not, nor is any Colombian.
So if you know someone who is stubborn, that’s me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you.
I don’t want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can’t accompany me, I’ll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn’t understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last.
You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom.
TRANSLATION OF STATEMENT FROM PRESIDENT OF COLOMBIA.
Trump, I don’t really like travelling to the US, it’s a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to the black neighborhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital… https://t.co/WrpxH3Myke
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) January 26, 2025
After more race-baiting, he continued to portray himself as a Hispanic William Wallace while spouting more weird and wacky garbage.
Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs.
My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete.
You will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolívar, opposes us.
Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today’s Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered.
Petro then closed by threatening to impose tariffs on America, which would basically guarantee economic suicide for his country.
“Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world,” Petro wrote.
“I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States,” he concluded. “And I do the same.”
One could say Petro should have just skipped his entire screed until the very end because no one really knows what he was talking about.
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